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Chapter4: The Coming of the GREAT WAR

On the 25th of August 2011, the Russo-Chinese War begun after the CRE (Confederated Russian Empire) suddenly attacked the PRC (People's Republic of China). The Russians had allowed no opportunity for negotiations that would hopefully avert war as traditionally inscribed in international law. China had been assaulted without warning and UN Peacekeepers tried unsuccessfully to get the CRE to withdraw its military from the country. From the start of this war the Chinese Military was clearly outmatched in every possible way. On top of the fact that Russian technology was far more superior, the difference in quantity was also overwhelming. The Russians already had an inventory of 34 989 Battle Tanks against China's 7 760, and they hadn't even reached a quarter of their full war production. The Russians also had about 19 875 Aircrafts to their arsenal, with more than an adequate number of pilots to field them. To combat this massive force, China had 4 802 aircraft, which was about the same number of planes the Russian Navy had. China was a military power, but against Russia they were totally powerless. But not completely powerless, their true power lied in their numbers, and thus the Chinese leadership hoped to use their massive numbers in order to bog down the Russian army and thus force its government to sue for peace.

Unfortunately, 'peace' was the last thing on the mind of Czar Viktor i. For the Tsar, this wasn't just a war of expansion, economic benefit and retribution, but a war of race. It was because of this that he wanted to exterminate the Chinese people, considering them “the scum of the earth”. To this end, he would send orders straight from the Winter Palace to the RIA (Russian Imperial Army) fighting on the front lines, ordering them to "exterminate all racially hostile elements". This was a direct declaration of genocide against Chinese citizens. Although at first all male citizens, whether soldiers or not, were the targets of the decree by the Tsar, the killings had quickly spread to women and children alike as both Moscow and St. Petersburg began pressuring field commanders and officials on the front to in turn pressurize their own troops into carrying out acts which were a gross violation of International Law. At this time, fresh off the death of the nation's founding father, the power and influence of the throne was in many instances, still considered supreme. Thus at the behest of the Tsar, because of this influence, Moscow began introducing more and more harsher laws against not only the Chinese people outside of Russia (especially on the Chinese front), but the Sino-Russian people that were living inside the borders of Russia. After the collapse of the USSR, particularly during the boom years of the Russian economy, many Chinese people had opportunistically moved into the nation in droves. By this time their population had risen from 16 300 in 1991, to a massive 1.7 million, and this was only counting those immigrants that had obtained citizenship, as about 5-6 million people of Chinese descent had crossed the Russian border in order to make a living there, particularly when China was still a member of the Russo-Chinese Trade Bloc, and although many had to go back home after Russia kicked the nation out of the trade bloc, a considerable chunk of them remained in Russia as illegal immigrants.

Even though 1.7 million of them were technically Russian civilians, the Tsar, blinded by hatred, still considered them foreigners as very few of them had actually been born inside Russia, and had "Successfully used my father's fondness for them to steal Russian citizenship from more deserving people", said Czar Viktor i. A part of this was truth, Czar Maxim i was fond of the Chinese people as well as their culture, and had repeatedly visited the country as an 'Acclaimed Tourist' before things went sour with the nation's government, but the real reason he liked them and thus gave citizenship to so many was because he valued their scientific brilliance and willingness to commit to labour, plus Russian industries appreciated the cheap labour, even though it was abundant back at home due to the dissolution of the USSR and the disastrous rule of Popov in the Russian Federation that followed. Even so, Czar Viktor i didn't care, he had long harboured a grudge against China, particularly when he learnt of the Sino-Soviet split of the cold war, which he considered one of the greatest betrayals in the history of diplomacy, thus one of the main reasons why the Soviet economy stagnated, leading to collapse. Whether this was true or not, to deal with the Chinese inside Russia had become priority. As a result, the Tsar would pass the Temporary Internment Act of 2011 on December the 11th. With the Imperium’s approval of the Act, the nightmare of the Sino-Russian people had begun. As the oppressive laws against them got worse, the act would cement their fate by compelling them to surrender themselves for internment in War Prison Camps around the Russo-Chinese border, a policy reminiscent to Roosevelt's racist internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. "As a result of the war effort in China, the 'Temporary Internment' of Sino-Russian peoples is as a causality of the latter conflict, arising as a result of the internal security of Russia being in jeopardy", the act's preamble justified, "and will be in force at least until the defeat of the PRC", it continued.

Unfortunately, the dark secret of the act was that it was to be used as an instrument to mix in Chinese prisoners from Russia together with the many that would come from China. They would be imprisoned at the Russo-Chinese border, where they could easily mix them with their brethren, and since a majority of Sino-Russians were unable to speak Russian fluently, let alone at all, they would use this to permanently displace them, slowly stripping them off their Russian citizenship. “Russian officials are to keep the ID Documents of each Sino-Russian citizen in an inventory that will be built in every internment camp so as to ensure that fraudulent activity does not occur with regards to citizenship and the citizenship of each civilian is safeguarded.”, section 13 of the Temporary Internment Act declared, this meant that Russo-Chinese citizens were going to have their IDs taken from them, which was going to make the Tsar’s plans even easier to execute. It wasn't a nice thing to do, but Russian officials were not only obligated to follow orders, but to follow the law. As a result, all Sino-Russians would lose virtually all the rights assured to them by the Russian Imperial Constitution, and as expected, many of the Sino-Russians resisted, leading to them being brutally hunted down by the Military Police. After all the progress, the nation was regressing into a terror state and there was uproar all around the world. There was even uproar inside Russia, how could the government do this to such a large number of people in the Russian population.

Although the Russian people were angry about the death of the Tsar, not all of them had called for Chinese blood. In fact, an anti-war sentiment was becoming increasingly popular inside the nation. Almost every Russian civilian agreed on the fact that China had to be punished, but those that held an anti-war sentiment, disagreed with the governments handling of things. These anti-war protests were mostly prevalent in the Free City of Stalinsk, a city that was right next to the the frontlines, so it was understandable why many of it’s dwellers disagreed with the Russian Army’s invasion of China. The city had become a hub for the robotics industry, computer innovations, mechanics, cyberization and BAPA technology. From hardware to software to where these were produced, every geek from all around the world knew that Stalinsk was the technological hub of SE Asia, and was where you had to go if you were science whiz hoping to make it big in the big city. Although Shenzen, China was big competitor when it came to robotics and innovation, many experts agreed that the Stalinsk was, in every conceivable way, considerably much better. The booming technological metropolis had a massive GDP of about 870 billion USD, and now many of its inhabitants feared that the war with China would bring this prosperity to an end since their city was right next to the Russo-Chinese border, thus dangerously close to the front.

Although the Russian Army had begun their offensive by expanding the defensive parameter around border (particularly the city) by pushing the front into China as fast as possible, the city was still in perfect range for air strikes and missile attacks, and since the RCAF (Russo-Confederated Armed Forces) didn’t exactly follow international law, it was thought that China would have no problem bombing the city. Many protests had thus occurred around the city, and after the city’s authorities handled these protests poorly, they quickly became riots, and the people of the city called for Moscow to withdraw troops from China. The police had been sent to crush the riots, but this only served to infuriate the rioters even more. Hoping to calm the riots down, the Cardinal Chamber of the Imperium threatened to end the city’s free status should the city’s authorities fail to crush the riots, but this only added fuel to the fire and by January 2012, the riots were quickly turning into a revolution.

The rioters in the city were now calling for complete independence from Moscow, wishing to set up Stalinsk as an independent city-state that could decide it’s internet and external policy. The city also had the largest population in Russia, with about 800 000 Sino-Chinese civilians as well as millions of illegal immigrants from China, when the police asked the Chinese people to hand themselves over as per the Internment legislation, the rioters refused to hand them over, and had even attacked a military base. When the Cardinal Chamber was finally preparing to end the city’s free status via a new bill, the US Government instantly threatened to end the city’s special status as a trading port and financial platform free from Moscow’s control, and thus ideal for Western Capital. The EU also agreed, and if the Imperium went ahead and passed the bill, the Free City of Stalinsk would be treated like every other Russian city, in fact, it was “going to be worse” according to US Secretary of State.

The US government then began to call for the city’s liberation, demanding that Russian authorities allow a referendum that would be overseen by the UN as to whether or not the city should stay in the Empire, and also called for the instant repeal of the Temporary Internment Act. The Russian government would respond by accusing the USA of meddling in the country’s internal affairs and instantly sent in the Russian army into the city in order to restore law and order and to fulfil the provisions of the Temporary Internment Act. Although the city would keep its status, the Russian Army would patrol it’s streets until the riots were over. Due to the actions of the CRE, Washington DC and it’s EU ally would end the city’s special status, thus pressuring businessmen from the USA and Europe to leave the city. The US would further their initiative by kicking out all Russian University students studying in the USA and began to push a resolution through the UN that would lead to the massive economic sanctioning of the CRE by the international community. Meanwhile, the Russians were dealing with their own problems at home, and after the Russian military had crushed the riots, the Tsar would use propaganda on a national and international scale in order to assure the Russian people of the “safety precautions taken” in order to make conditions inside the War Prison Camps, humane for those interned due to the Temporary Internment Act. This strategy would work marvellously, although many around the world, particularly in the West, weren’t convinced. In addition, the RIAF began a massive aerial patrol operation of the city in order to calm down the people who feared bombing attacks from China.

Meanwhile, by February 2012, tens of thousands of civilians on the frontlines had perished. Even so, to the Tsar this was extremely slow considering the massive Chinese population that they would have to tame. It had thus become clear that RIA forces was having a very hard time carrying out the distasteful orders of murdering innocent people, particularly women and children, whom they mostly refused to harm. Some in the army even began resisting against this senseless killing in their own quiet way. Some Field Commanders had spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and children, capturing only men fit to carry a rifle for the Communist Party whilst allowing the rest to escape into unconquered territory, thus into the hands of their original government. Others even began ignoring orders from the Winter Palace which entailed the execution of innocent people. This rebellion had caused some Field Commanders to be demoted and sent back to Russia in shame, but more so, showed the resolve of army officials adamant on the belief drilled onto them by the previous Tsar of not "carrying out atrocities senselessly like brainless brutes".

By April 2012 204 000 Chinese civilians were found to having been executed on the Chinese Front, with the daily execution rate rapidly decreasing with every passing day. In fact, these numbers were contested. Rumours were that a majority of those accounted for were actually dead Chinese soldiers that the Russian forces dressed in civilian clothing before including onto the tally. Whether or not Russian soldiers were that creative in their quest to save lives, one thing was for sure, they were very slow in their spree, months had already passed and as a result, by this time the Tsar had expected to see millions of civilians dead considering the fact that there were a billion Chinese people to work through. But they were still able to carry out the executions of a number of Chinese civilians, for the Tsar, who had just gotten his first taste of mass murder, this meant that some of them were actually willing to do it. As a remedy to his current dilemma, on April the 8th, Czar Viktor i would order the RIA to create a new military division that would be separate from its ranks and tied directly to the royal family. This fighting force’s main purpose would be to carry out his genocidal program. Not wanting to stain their honour, the RIA would happily form the Sila Ataki(SA) under the watchful eye and leadership of General Vladimir Kremli, who was fanatically loyal to the crown.

The Sila Ataki would soon become the Tsar's most feared instrument of destruction. Fanatical shock troops who carried out his most evil of orders. The SA had started strong, with over 200 000 "Patriotic Soldiers" on the go, that was about 10 divisions, which impressed the Tsar. As the RIA continued to make it's exhausting advance against Chinese forces, Kremli's SA would follow closely behind, murdering off Chinese populations they encountered. Dense villages, towns and even small cities of people would be massacred with the introduction of a new and quiet system of Concentration and Death Camps all over Occupied North-Eastern China. These camps were created in an effort to help SA troops better "Cope" with the scope of murder they were committing themselves into, and "to save bullets", according Kremli. They were also to be used for slave labour, so as to support the Russian War effort against their own homeland. This was obviously reminiscent of the Nazis from WWII.

Speaking of the war, from its' initial stages in 2011, the Russians absolutely dominated the battlefield. With more advanced armoury and better equipment, the Russians devastated the Chinese forces, of whom lost an outstanding 36 soldiers for every Russian they took down. Initially, Chinese forces were forced to retreat Southwards with heavy losses, and by July 2012 most of Northern China had fallen under RIA occupation. Aware of their inability to establish a tactical advantage, the Chinese Command ordered a withdrawal into Southern China so as to prepare a proper resistance. Factories were also in a process of being moved southwards, and this process was accelerated by the Russian invasion. As expected, the RIAF targeted them, although they also had to contend with the Chinese Airforce, of whom had a large inventory of Russian Aircraft that had been bought before hostilities between the two nations emerged. The retreat southwards made sense, Russian troops were just too advanced technologically, and the numerical superiority in equipment, granted them little strategic depth on the front. Because of this, Chinese cities fell one by one like dominos on a flat board. The same Chinese cities would be violated by the invaders, of whom wanted to eradicate Chinese culture in all it's forms. Even so, the Russians used those same cities for their own war effort, causing the Chinese government to adopt a Scotched Earth policy that would be perpetrated by retreating troops. This was a devastating blow to China and its massive economy, and would obviously affect the wartime industries of the PRC way more than the Russian War Machine back inside the Motherland.

Around June, Mongolia was found to be taking in Chinese refugees. The Tsar was furious with the Mongols, their nation had been devastated by famine and it was his father who sent the supplies that ended it. Not to mention the fact that Moscow had spent millions Rubles to help repair the devastated economy of the Central Asian nation. To the Tsar, the act of absorbing refugees from Russia's enemy was equivalent to betrayal. As a result, the Russian government would come up with an elaborate plan to attack Mongolia by framing its government as being responsible for funding terrorist bombings on buildings in Warsaw, RSS Poland, which was a satellite state of mother Russia, thus an autonomous part of the CRE. This gave the Russian government an excuse to violate international protocol yet again by attacking and occupying Mongolia. Poles were now getting involved in the conflict with China too, thus making Poland the first satellite state to do so. Mongolia was not occupied and although the nation was not destroyed by the Russian invasion, several Mongolian soldiers had been killed and the Mongolian Government had been overthrown by the RIA (Russian Imperial Army), thus leading to riots by Mongolian citizens. As a result, Moscow instantly implemented Martial Law in Mongolia in order to break the will of those who resist just like they had done so in Finland. America on the other hand couldn't do anything apart from protesting in the UN, but considering the nation’s involvement in the Middle East, many statesmen and delegates considered the protests as hypocrisy. It was becoming clear to the world that the advantage of being a large powerful nation was that you could break international law and get away with it almost every time. As a result, many, particularly Chinese people, were not happy about the UN’s response. Even so, China was not alone.

Although India was providing China with as much support as it possibly could, it made little difference. The Indian government was incredibly worried about the war in China, believing they would probably be attacked next by this "Aggressive Imperialist Russia". As a result, India would decide to physically involve itself into the conflict after pressure from the UN Security Council had failed to stop the Russian advance inside China. As a result, with western backing, more than 2.5 Million Indian troops would rush to the Chinese Front. The joint Sino-Indian force would cause the Russian advance to instantly halt on its tracks, with the Battle of Hūazong in Central China being the first city in China where RIA would suffer its first major setback on the Chinese Front, losing the strategic city to the enemy. Even so, the fact still remained, and it was that since the start of the Russo-Chinese Conflict, no Russian city, town or even scrap of land had been affected by this war, let alone touched by a single Chinese bullet.

Although the Chinese Airforce had planned raiding operations against Russian cities and towns as a revenge for the damage dealt by the Russians at home, the RIAF (Russian Imperial AirForce) had gained total Air superiority almost immediately, and any and all Chinese planes flying in the skies, whether armed or not, were to be shot down with malice as decreed by the Tsar. Thankfully though, the Indian Airforce was now in the play, and with newly imported Aircrafts from America, they would begin to challenge the might of the RIAF, going so far as to stage a brief air raid over the Free City of Stalinsk, one of Russia's largest and most prominent cities. Although incredibly small, the raid humiliated the RIAF, who claimed to be "The invincible wall that guards Russian skies". The Russian people were shocked, and panic slowly resurfaced in Stalinsk, although it would be cooled down by the RIAF’s publication of their latest military operation as revenge for the small air raid.

The Sino-Indian victory was to short lived after the CRE began imposing the same policies on Indian Planes as it did with Chinese planes. Additionally, on August 2012, the Russian Imperial Airforce would begin the Vitse-Vodopad, or Operation Vice-Falls when translated. This would be the large aerial bombardment of Indian cities and towns, as well as other important infrastructural area in the country. The air battle over India had begun, but with the vastness of Czar Viktor's massive aerial and naval forces had been unleashed against India, there was little the Indians could do to stop the Russians from gaining total superiority over the skies of India. As a result of the operation, Indian Ports (Harbours, Airports etc.) as well as other essential Industrial infrastructure would be laid to waste. This was a solution to RIA's inability to reach India, as the Russian Navy had yet to get a chance of getting rid of the pesky, but impressive Chinese Navy, who's massive submarine fleet prowled the Pacific in an effort to disrupt Russian shipping. In fact, at first the Chinese wanted to unleash their massive missile inventory on Stalinsk as revenge for the air raids in India, but after the Russians deployed their navy in order to carry out these raids, the Chinese would launch one of the biggest missile attacks on Russian Warships in the Indian ocean, sinking almost the entire fleet of destroyers, cruisers, frigates, corvettes and the two Aircraft Carriers that had been deployed into the area in order to blockade Indian coasts. Although 15% of the fleet that had been deployed to the Indian Ocean had survived, the Russian people were in shock, and this prompted the Russian government to begin pouring massive amounts of money onto the improvement of RINF (Russian Imperial Navy Force) anti-ballistic missile systems as well as it’s offensive capabilities. With billions to the RINF, this would begin the fastest naval build-up in the history of humanity as warship production skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, the fighting between the CRE and the Sino-Indian forces on the Chinese Front would continue all year through, with both sides pushing each other back and forth at this point. It was obviously an unstable stalemate, however, the front would finally stabilize, allowing a more predictable stalemate to develop on March 2013, although at a great price for the Sino-Indian forces, of whom lost a staggering 46 soldiers for every Russian they killed. The loss of equipment on the Chinese Front would cause an increase in the stimulation of Russian war industry, inflaming the already massive Russian military budget. With trade in the pacific being disrupted, and military spending rising to massive heights, the era of economic boom was relatively over. But unlike the USA, who's boom culminated in a depression, in Russia, the boom ended when it became clear to Russian economists that the growth of the economy had slowed down. But it was normal for growth to slow as a country transitioned from developing to developed, especially in Russia's place, the only nation in the world to be regarded as a Hyper-Industrialized (a nation that can produce a massive variety of advanced high quality goods in vast quantities at the same time), a criteria not even the USA could fit into.

Meanwhile, whilst the war in China continued, normal Russians went about their daily lives barely affected by the conflict apart from the economic slowdown, protests for the war in China to end, as well as the small air-raid in Stalinsk. Ironically, the war in the frontlines was brutal. At first, the Sino-Indian forces kept Russian POWs during the fighting, but as the atrocities committed by the Sila Ataki against Chinese civilians became apparent to them, Sino-Indian forces, particularly Chinese troops, would mostly shoot on sight, the few small pockets of Russian troops that surrendered or they captured. Additionally, even though the Sino-Indian forces captured an extremely small number of Russian troops due to how advanced and effective the Russians were as a fighting force, the few captured Russian POWs were mostly treated horribly if not murdered in the war prison camps. This form of retribution would lead to more atrocities against Chinese civilians, augmenting the hate both sides felt. Bad blood would lead to more bad blood. Troops no longer believed in the rules of war, let alone surrender, thus causing the war to become even bloodier. With so much blood being spilt on the Chinese Front, many Russians were unhappy about the war in China and called for its immediate end as the anti-war campaign began re-emerge. As a result, this anti-war campaign would lead to the increased censorship of Russian free press as Tsarist propaganda began to be more and more prominent.

The war's geopolitical effects were also evident. Major disputes over trading routes between the Japanese Government and that of the Chinese had escalated when Japanese Naval patrol boats were accused of having fired shells at Indian Warships, leading to a naval blockade against Japanese shipping routes. This escalation of tensions would cause the Japanese Government to pass laws forcing the withdrawal of any and all Japanese investments in India and China. These bills would force private Japanese corporations to pull out millions from both countries. This move would affect India the most, who's economy needed the capital Japan had provided, especially during these times of war. In response to this, the Indian government would seize all Japanese assets within Indian territory. Japan would lose billions. As revenge, the Japanese would manage to convince a staggering 21 different nations to impose economic penalties similar to its own on India, with others going so far as to impose harsher sanctions. The Japanese would also encourage the CRE to unleash it’s massive navy on both nations so as to alleviate their shipping lanes. At first there were reservations about this from the Russian Imperial High Command, particularly when taking into account what had happened on the Indian oean, but now that Indian and Chinese warships had left the safety of their naval bases as well as harbours in order to blockade Japanese shipping routes, the Russians would oblige, taking the opportunity to attack their enemy’s navy.

Knowing that Japan was a close ally of the CRE, both India and China were convinced that the Japanese government was being influenced by the Russians. They were sure this was direct action to undermine their war effort against the CRE. As a result of the tensions, a massive joint Indo-Chinese Airforce would suddenly attack the Japanese Capital of Tokyo from out of nowhere. This attack would also include other major Japanese cities. Completely eradicating harbours, ports and buildings. During this surprise attack, the Indo-Chinese Airforce had dropped 600 tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs on civilian centres in Tokyo. 12 400 Japanese citizens were killed from just a single air raid, and war was declared by a furious Japanese Prime Minister Ryuga Akiyama after the Diet (Japanese Parliament) approved. The ruthless attack received international condemnation, with the UN threatening to sanction both nations due to their carelessness.

The Airforce of both India and China would begin to be put to use on endlessly bombarding Japanese cities, with Tokyo as the main target of the terrible events what would be dubbed 'The Blitz II' by Western media. By this time, many political scientists began to predict that a new World War was on the horizon. Although no naval invasion of Japan would be planned by both India and China due to their focus being on fighting Russia on the Chinese Front as well as concerns about the dangerous presence of the RINF, the Blitz II would be used as a fighting tool against Japan. Japan on the other hand could offer no reply apart from what they could do from home in terms of defence. They weren't prepared for war and since WWII, the Japanese military hadn't been the same. It would take longer for the Japanese military to be prepared for combat. To make matters worse, they were losing the air war over their nation, they could not request CRE aid as their alliance was purely economic and in an effort to not provoke America, had refused to sign into military conventions with the CRE. On the other hand, America supported India and China in their war against Russia, and thus refused to get involved in the Blitz ii, the Japanese were on their own.

But to Japan's luck, the CRE was eager to share the damages of the war against China and India. The RINF (Russian Imperial Navy Force) had thousands of aircrafts and was thus ready to intervene. But they knew that carrying all the weight of fighting the air forces of both nations wouldn't be "a sharing of the damages". The Russians were in an economic alliance with Japan, this alliance had nothing to do with military relations between the two nations apart from the sale of some arms to Japan by private Russian Weapons Corporations, as well as the maintenance of naval and air force bases in the Kuril Islands. So Russian diplomats would provide Japan with their terms. If they wanted military aid then they had to sign a military pact with Russia and stay away from Western military alliances. This along with other concessions would not only bring the nations even closer together, but ensure Russian interests in Japan were protected. Honouring their agreement, the Cardinal Chamber of the Imperium would reactivate the International Aid Act of 2008 that had been passed under the RCU during its efforts to rebuild the world economy after the Financial Crisis of 2007-8. Now that the commitment of the CRE was secured, Japan could count on Russia to help with the steel, but the Japanese needed to get hundreds of thousands, if not millions of troops, onto mainland Asia in order to help alleviate the pressure from Russian troops. Essential military equipment worth hundreds of millions of Rubles would be moved from the CRE to Japan. The Russians would even sell their Japanese ally guns and bombs at discounted prices so as to quickly prepare the Japanese military. The lease of military equipment to Japan was incredibly quick, showing off the logistical prowess of the Russian military.

Even though Chinese submarines tried to disrupt the transference of this equipment, Russian anti-submarine warfare would prove successful in protecting convoys and smoothening the whole process, particularly after five Chinese subs were heavily damaged by the RINF, with only four making it back to China without sinking. The Russians then began secretly building a new Airforce base inside Japan so as to counter 'The Blitz II'. Soon, the Sino-Indian Airforce was in a massive air war with the RIAF (Russian Imperial Airforce), slowly killing their air superiority over Japan and gradually putting an end to the Blitz ii. At the height of its nationalism as well as with massive military aid from Russia, the Japanese would soon be ready. By September 2013, angry Japanese forces would enter Russian occupied north-eastern China. With hundreds of Millions of Rubles being wasted each day as the War in China continued (and it had been an entire two years), the Russians would instantly withdraw from north-eastern China, thus giving it to the Japanese, and would only occupy north-western China, thus cutting the expensive logistics costs of maintaining their occupation and guerrilla fight in occupied Chinese territory by half. So, although it seemed as if the Russians were burdening the costs alone, they actually weren’t as the expensive logistical expenses which had cost them millions of rubles a day, had been cut by more than half since Japan was now burdening the other half by occupying north-eastern China, who’s guerrilla fighters were relentless.

With this alliance, the USA would react by reactivating the Lend Lease Act of 1941 by sending massive amounts of military aid to both India and China as revenge for the actions of the then RCU during the American Civil War of Morality. Both India and China would fight the Russian Superpower even harder, believing that the world supported them. Still, it proved very costly for both. The millions of lives lost on the Chinese Front were just too much to bare. They had to find an alternative way to end the war with the Superpower. After both India and China agreed on how to finish off the Russians, on January 2014, a massive Sino-Indian force of 257 Nuclear missiles would flood the Russian mainland at the same time, targeting key Russian locations (i.e. major Cities, Industrial grounds, Commercial estates and Ports etc.), not fully comprehending Russia's powerful Nuclear defence protocol. Japan would be spared from the devastation, only because both India and China expected Japan to come to the conference table immediately after the CRE was devastated. This attack was a disastrous decision, and both nations didn't even know.

Due to the NRDTs(Nuclear Radiation Defence Terminals) most of these long to short range Nuclear missiles would be automatically diffused by the ultra-advanced computer systems of the NRDTs. In fact, 167 of these missiles would be diffused before they even hit Russia. 55 would be intercepted by strategic NRDT anti-ballistic missiles, and would be blown up in the sky inside and outside Russian airspace (although some of the radiation released from those that blew up outside Russian airspace would still reach Russia because of the winds), whilst the rest were redirected to the Artic Sea. Although this effectively defended Russia from nigh destruction, it was still the first time the NRDTs were actually being used and there was only so much the they could do, and this was because 5 of the nuclear bombs still exploded inside Russia, although all of these nukes were more or less decoy nukes with little range and radiation as they were part of the oldest nuclear weapons that got created by China during the cold war era. These five nukes were only meant to damage arable land and spread radiation to the nearest population centres, thus meaning no town, city or a populated area had been directly hit. Even so, much of the radiation released from the nukes intercepted inside Russian airspace, including the five that managed to explode inside Russia, had spread to towns and villages, including 5 cities, managing to kill 26 568 Russian citizens within the time span of two weeks before Russian authorities managed to get the situation under control, even then, the radiation was expected to cause major health issues for those population centres it had spread to. This was the first time the war with China and India was coming home to the Russian Empire, and it had done so in a big way. The last time such a thing happened, only a few people got injured in Stalinsk, whilst only 12 died after the small air raid on the city.

As for Japan, its people had dodged a bullet, what shocked them more than Russia's anti-nuclear and anti-ballistic missile system, was that they themselves hadn't been nuked. They got lucky, and they had gotten the message. Many Japanese citizens believed that they would be nuked by China and its ally should they continue to fight in the Russo-Chinese Conflict, and something even worse than what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki all those years, would happen. They had two choices, retreat and live to fight another day, or risk the repeat of WWII. Prime Minister Ryuga Akiyama would reluctantly withdraw Japanese forces from north-eastern China. Yes, they could produce nukes if they wanted to, but they knew that nuclear arms build-up was extremely expensive, plus they felt it was pointless as their missile systems and technology was nothing compared to Russia or China, meaning they would have to develop the best mechanisms for delivering warheads if they didn't want to be humiliated like China and India. But what made a nuclear arms build-up even more pointless to them was that unlike Russia, they themselves could get nuked, and if wind of such a build-up ever reached the ears of the Chinese or Indian leadership, then they'd be finished. Plus, after the failed nuclear attack, Russia was surely going to retaliate. As a result, for them the war with China and India was over.

The Japanese informed the Russians of their decision instantly after the failed nuclear attack, quickly withdrawing troops from mainland China. Many Japanese military leaders were unhappy about the decision, feeling that it tainted Japan's honour to abandon a friend during tough times, especially after agreements had been made, but the Japanese Parliament – The National Diet of Japan, had given out the order, and with the Prime Minister's support, there was nothing they could do. As a result, many Russian soldiers who had taken a recess and had been sent back home to enjoy themselves away from the frontlines needed to be quickly recalled. Although Russian logistics was good, this quick and relatively unplanned redeployment of soldiers who had been enjoying themselves back at home two or three days earlier, caused major disorder. The troops that had to refill the void left by Japan were not enough to realistically maintain the full occupation of north-eastern China (formerly occupied by the Japanese) whilst battling Chinese guerrilla fighters, even with Sila Ataki troops being put on the frontline. As a result, it was very unlikely that the Russian military would be able push back a counter-offensive by the enemy.

As predicted, this allowed the Sino-Indian forces to quickly retake much of north-eastern China. Even so, for the CRE, the good news was that they had managed to stop the advance of the enemy much earlier than expected, allowing the Russian military to keep the far northern parts of north-eastern China, keeping the provinces of Heilongjiang and some northern parts of the province of Jilin as well as the far north of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. The Russians were lucky, they had narrowly kept their enemies away from the Russian border. Even though this advance by the Sino-Indian forces merely expanded the threat of air raids over Eastern Siberian cities, the trusted air superiority of the RIAF would protect against such. For the first time since the start of the Russo-Chinese war, Chinese forces finally regained a clear majority of their land. The bad news for the Russians was that many Chinese civilians had now escaped their control even though brutal Sila Ataki methods had brought a lot of them along with the rapidly retreating Russian army, a huge majority of those previously controlled by the SA were now in the hands of their original government, meaning they were not only safe, but they could join the Chinese war effort and also be able to corroborate rumours of Russian atrocities in occupied China. This would be worsened by the horrifying truth that advancing Sino-Indian forces would unravel about Russian war-crimes against the Chinese people. Even though the Japanese did their best to destroy most of the evidence, their retreat from mainland Asia was too fast to allow them liberty and time to do so effectively. Russian attempts to cover up the war crimes during a rapid retreat northwards, amid the realization that the numerical superiority of the enemy meant they couldn't hold their positions, were even worse. These news would cause the USA to send CIA Officials, whilst the UN set up an investigative taskforce on to the Chinese Front, in an effort to get even more tangible evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. The Russians refused to admit to genocide against the Chinese people, but for the West, the writing was on the wall, the CRE was guilty. Meanwhile, Russia’s newly formed military alliance with Japan was also in a shaky situation.

The Russian people were angry at Japan, leading to the shunning of Japan by Russia and their ally – Italy. As a result of what many Russians considered 'betrayal' by the Japanese, the Russians would withdraw all their troops and equipment from the Japanese homeland, instantly dismantling military installations, deserting the large air base they had set up in Tokyo and immediately stopping the construction of the other five that were being made in other Japanese cities. Then overnight, the Russian military was gone and the air battle over Japan was over. Now Indian and Chinese bombers as well as multirole aircrafts could finally pursue their mission of bombarding the nation into submission. The Blitz ii was re-strengthening in their favour again, and this had happened after the Japanese refused to Surrender Unconditionally to India and China during the Treaty of Mumbai, thus meaning the air war between them would continue, even though Japan had withdrawn from China. Meanwhile, relations with Russia had been hurt, although they would continue to trade with one another, Russia had begun imposing economic barriers against the Japanese companies, which not only injured the Japanese economy, but the profitability of their trade bloc. Western media would add fuel to the fire in an effort to bring an end to the Russo-Japanese Trade Bloc, which many economies around the world, relied on.

Meanwhile, as a result of the nuclear attack on Russia, the Tsar was furious. He declared that this attack was the greatest injustice against the Russian people since the Nazi invasion of Soviet-Russia in WW2. Had their defences been weak, then millions of his people would've died. Never before had Tsarist propaganda been more effective, now Russian people despised the nation of China, and wanted revenge. The Tsar would promise great vengeance for the lives lost in the sudden nuclear attack against the Motherland. As the entire Russian Empire mourned the death of the innocent people who had died, the Government would use this moment to stimulate great patriotism inside the CRE against China and India. The actions of both countries not only strengthened Tsarist indoctrination, but Sila Ataki propaganda against Chinese people as well. But what was even worse for both countries was that they had wasted a huge majority of their arsenal on Russia, and the little that was left wasn't even capable let alone deployed. For India and China, the situation was bad.

As revenge for the nuclear attacks, the killings by a bolstered Sila Ataki in the occupied north-western territory of China would intensify. By June 2014, over 47.8 Million Chinese Citizens were reported to having either been starved to death, exposed to the elements with intention to cause grievous bodily harm, shot by Sila Ataki troops or gassed on their large death camps since the start of the war. The Sila Ataki was a ruthless and efficient killing machine and if things continued in this pace then the Russian government would easily find new and better ways of "ending the misery of the Chinese scourge faster", as commented by a Russian Imperial official in the Winter Palace. Very few were aware of the magnitude of these crimes on the front lines, and even those that were, weren't really sure of the staggering figures. Considering that the SA only really started operating 2 years ago, killing on such a massive scale meant that this was the biggest genocidal program ever launched in human history. However, these crimes were all too apparent to the United States of America, and when the CIA secretly moving in occupied China finally obtained large amounts of evidence concerning massive state sponsored genocide by Russia against the Chinese people, published articles worldwide. For the death of Czar Maxim i Orlov, the people of China had paid a huge price. Now the world had obtained even more proof of what was happening inside occupied China. Russia was instantly condemned by the international community and the USA would bring the matter up to the UN Security Council, calling for the Tsar and his generals to be summoned upon an international tribunal and tried for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.

However, the day before such a trial could be organized, the Confederated Russian Empire (CRE) would self-terminate its UN membership under the guise and pretext of an unfair and biased United Nations on July,21, 2014. The Russians and all of its allies (excluding their African allies, of whom decided to side with the West) would then go on to form the UEA (Upper Eurasian Alliance) after member-states from Europe and Asia i.e. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Iran, Italy, Russian Satellite States etc.) signed up into the Alliance in Rome, Italy, under the leadership of the three strongest nations in the alliance i.e. Japan (who chose to side with the CRE during a UN General Assembly meeting and were thus expelled from the UN), Italy and the strongest of them all combined - the CRE. The UEA Security Council would be headed by these three nations, with only the CRE being granted the veto power. Relations between Japan and Russia were rapidly improving again after what had happened before the UN General Assembly. Although at first it would be proposed that the UEA be based in Rome, it would be decided by it’s member-states that the HQ must be set up in the Russian Legislative Capital of Moscow, CRE. This was the only organization world-wide to be the rival of the UN, and many experts believed that this was solely because of the CRE's membership. Even so, it would be because of its creation that all of its member-states would have their membership in the UN terminated by the USA and its allies. This proved that with Russia gone, America now dominated the UN.

The UN would also set its new "Main Battle Force" – NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). After UN member-states would agree to this at the San Fransisco Summit on August the 17th, 2014. Now NATO would fight for all UN member-states instead of just fighting exclusively for America and Western Europe. Because of this integration, a budget surpassing 1.5 trillion dollars would be set up for this new and more powerful NATO. This would cause the Russians to believe that America was being hostile towards the CRE, and was thus preparing to attack. So as a response, Russia would reform its own Military alliance, inviting a huge majority of UEA member-states to meet with CRE President Dimitrovo Putin in Warsaw, RSS Poland. After deliberations between those present at the meeting, the United Configuration of the Warsaw Pact (UCWP) would be formed. Like NATO and the UN, the UCWP military alliance would more or less become the main fighting force of the UEA. Now many believed that war between the two sides was inevitable, thus because of this, the doctrine of UCWP was simple, and that was to destroy NATO by destabilising its' global intelligence network and programs. Russian officials believed that this would dismantle its' international surveillance capabilities, thus helping to narrow the amount of power it can project around the world. But to simplify it, UCWP was a direct hostile organization against America's equally hostile NATO.

Meanwhile, it was September 2014 and the killings of Chinese populations in north-western China had gotten worse. Especially with the Sila Ataki receiving newly recruited fresh troops from Russian Satellite States as well as UCWP troops. It was terrible. The RIA had gotten back its' footing and hit Sino-Indian troops with a huge counter-offensive, and they had soon retrieved the Chinese City of Changchun and this time a more hostile force would be placed to occupy the city, whilst the RIA continued its advance. The population of the city would resist fiercely against the Sila Ataki, of whom wanted to brutalize the shrunken population (due to massive evacuations southwards by the Chinese Government) into submission. For the Chinese government, the disgrace was not being able to evacuate those civilians before the Russians overran the city. The resistance of the people in the city would lead to the single most greatest atrocity in human history - The Changchun Massacre, which saw the killings of Chinese people continue for three days straight without relent or mercy.

The Changchun Massacre had caused the deaths of a massive 96 000 people in a matter of three days, no greater crime had ever occurred in human history. It by far surpassed the Odessa Massacre of WW2. The Russians persisted that this wasn't a crime as those that died were using weapons and force against Sila Ataki troops, but this was simply not true as many of those killed were unarmed if not peacefully going about their day, whilst those that used weapons used Molotov cocktails. There were very few individuals whom used weapons like pistols and rifles. However, disputes with the UN changed nothing, tens of thousands of people had died. Meanwhile, the Russian military was putting more pressure on Sino-Indian forces, and it was believed that at this rate, the Chinese Military was going to collapse, plus with the greater economy on Russia's hands, this meant that the longer this war went on, the clearer it became that it was going in Russia's favour.

But by this time the whole world was finally willing to act against what the new President of the USA - Barack Obama, referred to as "Hell on Earth and the greatest test to the will of humanity to fight for freedom and what is Just". The Changchun Massacre was the last straw for the USA, plus America was aware that if Russia conquered China, then India was certainly next, and this meant that control of Asia and half of Europe would fall to Russia. American interests were under threat and the US Congress was putting more pressure on the new President to act. Obama would oblige, he would start by declaring to Russia that China was a member-state of the UN, this in effect made the nation a part of the NATO defence umbrella. By October, President Obama had begun passing demands to Moscow and St. Petersburg, calling for Russia to withdraw its troops from China, and when the CRE ignored the demands, the US Congress would jump at the opportunity by declaring a state of war between the CRE and the USA. Soon afterwards, NATO and the UN would declare the Confederated Russian Empire and then later the UEA, a "Clear and hostile threat to humanity".

Now the forces of the UN (i.e. NATO) would be led by the USA to fight against the forces of the UEA (i.e. UCWP) led by the CRE. These two world Superpowers were now set to clash on the world stage, and it was clearly for world domination. To this end, on the 2nd of December 2014, the Democrat President of the USA - Barack Obama, would declare the beginning of the "Darkest Age in human history". The age of Cataclysm was under way - WW3 had begun.

To be continued...

IMPORTANT TRIVIA

RSS- This stands for 'Russian Satellite State', and is thus typically found at the beginning of the name of a satellite state (e.g. RSS Poland; RSS Turkey etc.). These are dominions that have autonomy, but are under the jurisdiction of the CRE (Unincorporated Territories)

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Chapter4: The Coming of the GREAT WAR

On the 25th of August 2011, the Russo-Chinese War begun after the CRE (Confederated Russian Empire) suddenly attacked the PRC (People's Republic of China). The Russians had allowed no opportunity for negotiations that would hopefully avert war as traditionally inscribed in international law. China had been assaulted without warning and UN Peacekeepers tried unsuccessfully to get the CRE to withdraw its military from the country. From the start of this war the Chinese Military was clearly outmatched in every possible way. On top of the fact that Russian technology was far more superior, the difference in quantity was also overwhelming. The Russians already had an inventory of 34 989 Battle Tanks against China's 7 760, and they hadn't even reached a quarter of their full war production. The Russians also had about 19 875 Aircrafts to their arsenal, with more than an adequate number of pilots to field them. To combat this massive force, China had 4 802 aircraft, which was about the same number of planes the Russian Navy had. China was a military power, but against Russia they were totally powerless. But not completely powerless, their true power lied in their numbers, and thus the Chinese leadership hoped to use their massive numbers in order to bog down the Russian army and thus force its government to sue for peace.

Unfortunately, 'peace' was the last thing on the mind of Czar Viktor i. For the Tsar, this wasn't just a war of expansion, economic benefit and retribution, but a war of race. It was because of this that he wanted to exterminate the Chinese people, considering them “the scum of the earth”. To this end, he would send orders straight from the Winter Palace to the RIA (Russian Imperial Army) fighting on the front lines, ordering them to "exterminate all racially hostile elements". This was a direct declaration of genocide against Chinese citizens. Although at first all male citizens, whether soldiers or not, were the targets of the decree by the Tsar, the killings had quickly spread to women and children alike as both Moscow and St. Petersburg began pressuring field commanders and officials on the front to in turn pressurize their own troops into carrying out acts which were a gross violation of International Law. At this time, fresh off the death of the nation's founding father, the power and influence of the throne was in many instances, still considered supreme. Thus at the behest of the Tsar, because of this influence, Moscow began introducing more and more harsher laws against not only the Chinese people outside of Russia (especially on the Chinese front), but the Sino-Russian people that were living inside the borders of Russia. After the collapse of the USSR, particularly during the boom years of the Russian economy, many Chinese people had opportunistically moved into the nation in droves. By this time their population had risen from 16 300 in 1991, to a massive 1.7 million, and this was only counting those immigrants that had obtained citizenship, as about 5-6 million people of Chinese descent had crossed the Russian border in order to make a living there, particularly when China was still a member of the Russo-Chinese Trade Bloc, and although many had to go back home after Russia kicked the nation out of the trade bloc, a considerable chunk of them remained in Russia as illegal immigrants.

Even though 1.7 million of them were technically Russian civilians, the Tsar, blinded by hatred, still considered them foreigners as very few of them had actually been born inside Russia, and had "Successfully used my father's fondness for them to steal Russian citizenship from more deserving people", said Czar Viktor i. A part of this was truth, Czar Maxim i was fond of the Chinese people as well as their culture, and had repeatedly visited the country as an 'Acclaimed Tourist' before things went sour with the nation's government, but the real reason he liked them and thus gave citizenship to so many was because he valued their scientific brilliance and willingness to commit to labour, plus Russian industries appreciated the cheap labour, even though it was abundant back at home due to the dissolution of the USSR and the disastrous rule of Popov in the Russian Federation that followed. Even so, Czar Viktor i didn't care, he had long harboured a grudge against China, particularly when he learnt of the Sino-Soviet split of the cold war, which he considered one of the greatest betrayals in the history of diplomacy, thus one of the main reasons why the Soviet economy stagnated, leading to collapse. Whether this was true or not, to deal with the Chinese inside Russia had become priority. As a result, the Tsar would pass the Temporary Internment Act of 2011 on December the 11th. With the Imperium’s approval of the Act, the nightmare of the Sino-Russian people had begun. As the oppressive laws against them got worse, the act would cement their fate by compelling them to surrender themselves for internment in War Prison Camps around the Russo-Chinese border, a policy reminiscent to Roosevelt's racist internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. "As a result of the war effort in China, the 'Temporary Internment' of Sino-Russian peoples is as a causality of the latter conflict, arising as a result of the internal security of Russia being in jeopardy", the act's preamble justified, "and will be in force at least until the defeat of the PRC", it continued.

Unfortunately, the dark secret of the act was that it was to be used as an instrument to mix in Chinese prisoners from Russia together with the many that would come from China. They would be imprisoned at the Russo-Chinese border, where they could easily mix them with their brethren, and since a majority of Sino-Russians were unable to speak Russian fluently, let alone at all, they would use this to permanently displace them, slowly stripping them off their Russian citizenship. “Russian officials are to keep the ID Documents of each Sino-Russian citizen in an inventory that will be built in every internment camp so as to ensure that fraudulent activity does not occur with regards to citizenship and the citizenship of each civilian is safeguarded.”, section 13 of the Temporary Internment Act declared, this meant that Russo-Chinese citizens were going to have their IDs taken from them, which was going to make the Tsar’s plans even easier to execute. It wasn't a nice thing to do, but Russian officials were not only obligated to follow orders, but to follow the law. As a result, all Sino-Russians would lose virtually all the rights assured to them by the Russian Imperial Constitution, and as expected, many of the Sino-Russians resisted, leading to them being brutally hunted down by the Military Police. After all the progress, the nation was regressing into a terror state and there was uproar all around the world. There was even uproar inside Russia, how could the government do this to such a large number of people in the Russian population.

Although the Russian people were angry about the death of the Tsar, not all of them had called for Chinese blood. In fact, an anti-war sentiment was becoming increasingly popular inside the nation. Almost every Russian civilian agreed on the fact that China had to be punished, but those that held an anti-war sentiment, disagreed with the governments handling of things. These anti-war protests were mostly prevalent in the Free City of Stalinsk, a city that was right next to the the frontlines, so it was understandable why many of it’s dwellers disagreed with the Russian Army’s invasion of China. The city had become a hub for the robotics industry, computer innovations, mechanics, cyberization and BAPA technology. From hardware to software to where these were produced, every geek from all around the world knew that Stalinsk was the technological hub of SE Asia, and was where you had to go if you were science whiz hoping to make it big in the big city. Although Shenzen, China was big competitor when it came to robotics and innovation, many experts agreed that the Stalinsk was, in every conceivable way, considerably much better. The booming technological metropolis had a massive GDP of about 870 billion USD, and now many of its inhabitants feared that the war with China would bring this prosperity to an end since their city was right next to the Russo-Chinese border, thus dangerously close to the front.

Although the Russian Army had begun their offensive by expanding the defensive parameter around border (particularly the city) by pushing the front into China as fast as possible, the city was still in perfect range for air strikes and missile attacks, and since the RCAF (Russo-Confederated Armed Forces) didn’t exactly follow international law, it was thought that China would have no problem bombing the city. Many protests had thus occurred around the city, and after the city’s authorities handled these protests poorly, they quickly became riots, and the people of the city called for Moscow to withdraw troops from China. The police had been sent to crush the riots, but this only served to infuriate the rioters even more. Hoping to calm the riots down, the Cardinal Chamber of the Imperium threatened to end the city’s free status should the city’s authorities fail to crush the riots, but this only added fuel to the fire and by January 2012, the riots were quickly turning into a revolution.

The rioters in the city were now calling for complete independence from Moscow, wishing to set up Stalinsk as an independent city-state that could decide it’s internet and external policy. The city also had the largest population in Russia, with about 800 000 Sino-Chinese civilians as well as millions of illegal immigrants from China, when the police asked the Chinese people to hand themselves over as per the Internment legislation, the rioters refused to hand them over, and had even attacked a military base. When the Cardinal Chamber was finally preparing to end the city’s free status via a new bill, the US Government instantly threatened to end the city’s special status as a trading port and financial platform free from Moscow’s control, and thus ideal for Western Capital. The EU also agreed, and if the Imperium went ahead and passed the bill, the Free City of Stalinsk would be treated like every other Russian city, in fact, it was “going to be worse” according to US Secretary of State.

The US government then began to call for the city’s liberation, demanding that Russian authorities allow a referendum that would be overseen by the UN as to whether or not the city should stay in the Empire, and also called for the instant repeal of the Temporary Internment Act. The Russian government would respond by accusing the USA of meddling in the country’s internal affairs and instantly sent in the Russian army into the city in order to restore law and order and to fulfil the provisions of the Temporary Internment Act. Although the city would keep its status, the Russian Army would patrol it’s streets until the riots were over. Due to the actions of the CRE, Washington DC and it’s EU ally would end the city’s special status, thus pressuring businessmen from the USA and Europe to leave the city. The US would further their initiative by kicking out all Russian University students studying in the USA and began to push a resolution through the UN that would lead to the massive economic sanctioning of the CRE by the international community. Meanwhile, the Russians were dealing with their own problems at home, and after the Russian military had crushed the riots, the Tsar would use propaganda on a national and international scale in order to assure the Russian people of the “safety precautions taken” in order to make conditions inside the War Prison Camps, humane for those interned due to the Temporary Internment Act. This strategy would work marvellously, although many around the world, particularly in the West, weren’t convinced. In addition, the RIAF began a massive aerial patrol operation of the city in order to calm down the people who feared bombing attacks from China.

Meanwhile, by February 2012, tens of thousands of civilians on the frontlines had perished. Even so, to the Tsar this was extremely slow considering the massive Chinese population that they would have to tame. It had thus become clear that RIA forces was having a very hard time carrying out the distasteful orders of murdering innocent people, particularly women and children, whom they mostly refused to harm. Some in the army even began resisting against this senseless killing in their own quiet way. Some Field Commanders had spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and children, capturing only men fit to carry a rifle for the Communist Party whilst allowing the rest to escape into unconquered territory, thus into the hands of their original government. Others even began ignoring orders from the Winter Palace which entailed the execution of innocent people. This rebellion had caused some Field Commanders to be demoted and sent back to Russia in shame, but more so, showed the resolve of army officials adamant on the belief drilled onto them by the previous Tsar of not "carrying out atrocities senselessly like brainless brutes".

By April 2012 204 000 Chinese civilians were found to having been executed on the Chinese Front, with the daily execution rate rapidly decreasing with every passing day. In fact, these numbers were contested. Rumours were that a majority of those accounted for were actually dead Chinese soldiers that the Russian forces dressed in civilian clothing before including onto the tally. Whether or not Russian soldiers were that creative in their quest to save lives, one thing was for sure, they were very slow in their spree, months had already passed and as a result, by this time the Tsar had expected to see millions of civilians dead considering the fact that there were a billion Chinese people to work through. But they were still able to carry out the executions of a number of Chinese civilians, for the Tsar, who had just gotten his first taste of mass murder, this meant that some of them were actually willing to do it. As a remedy to his current dilemma, on April the 8th, Czar Viktor i would order the RIA to create a new military division that would be separate from its ranks and tied directly to the royal family. This fighting force’s main purpose would be to carry out his genocidal program. Not wanting to stain their honour, the RIA would happily form the Sila Ataki(SA) under the watchful eye and leadership of General Vladimir Kremli, who was fanatically loyal to the crown.

The Sila Ataki would soon become the Tsar's most feared instrument of destruction. Fanatical shock troops who carried out his most evil of orders. The SA had started strong, with over 200 000 "Patriotic Soldiers" on the go, that was about 10 divisions, which impressed the Tsar. As the RIA continued to make it's exhausting advance against Chinese forces, Kremli's SA would follow closely behind, murdering off Chinese populations they encountered. Dense villages, towns and even small cities of people would be massacred with the introduction of a new and quiet system of Concentration and Death Camps all over Occupied North-Eastern China. These camps were created in an effort to help SA troops better "Cope" with the scope of murder they were committing themselves into, and "to save bullets", according Kremli. They were also to be used for slave labour, so as to support the Russian War effort against their own homeland. This was obviously reminiscent of the Nazis from WWII.

Speaking of the war, from its' initial stages in 2011, the Russians absolutely dominated the battlefield. With more advanced armoury and better equipment, the Russians devastated the Chinese forces, of whom lost an outstanding 36 soldiers for every Russian they took down. Initially, Chinese forces were forced to retreat Southwards with heavy losses, and by July 2012 most of Northern China had fallen under RIA occupation. Aware of their inability to establish a tactical advantage, the Chinese Command ordered a withdrawal into Southern China so as to prepare a proper resistance. Factories were also in a process of being moved southwards, and this process was accelerated by the Russian invasion. As expected, the RIAF targeted them, although they also had to contend with the Chinese Airforce, of whom had a large inventory of Russian Aircraft that had been bought before hostilities between the two nations emerged. The retreat southwards made sense, Russian troops were just too advanced technologically, and the numerical superiority in equipment, granted them little strategic depth on the front. Because of this, Chinese cities fell one by one like dominos on a flat board. The same Chinese cities would be violated by the invaders, of whom wanted to eradicate Chinese culture in all it's forms. Even so, the Russians used those same cities for their own war effort, causing the Chinese government to adopt a Scotched Earth policy that would be perpetrated by retreating troops. This was a devastating blow to China and its massive economy, and would obviously affect the wartime industries of the PRC way more than the Russian War Machine back inside the Motherland.

Around June, Mongolia was found to be taking in Chinese refugees. The Tsar was furious with the Mongols, their nation had been devastated by famine and it was his father who sent the supplies that ended it. Not to mention the fact that Moscow had spent millions Rubles to help repair the devastated economy of the Central Asian nation. To the Tsar, the act of absorbing refugees from Russia's enemy was equivalent to betrayal. As a result, the Russian government would come up with an elaborate plan to attack Mongolia by framing its government as being responsible for funding terrorist bombings on buildings in Warsaw, RSS Poland, which was a satellite state of mother Russia, thus an autonomous part of the CRE. This gave the Russian government an excuse to violate international protocol yet again by attacking and occupying Mongolia. Poles were now getting involved in the conflict with China too, thus making Poland the first satellite state to do so. Mongolia was not occupied and although the nation was not destroyed by the Russian invasion, several Mongolian soldiers had been killed and the Mongolian Government had been overthrown by the RIA (Russian Imperial Army), thus leading to riots by Mongolian citizens. As a result, Moscow instantly implemented Martial Law in Mongolia in order to break the will of those who resist just like they had done so in Finland. America on the other hand couldn't do anything apart from protesting in the UN, but considering the nation’s involvement in the Middle East, many statesmen and delegates considered the protests as hypocrisy. It was becoming clear to the world that the advantage of being a large powerful nation was that you could break international law and get away with it almost every time. As a result, many, particularly Chinese people, were not happy about the UN’s response. Even so, China was not alone.

Although India was providing China with as much support as it possibly could, it made little difference. The Indian government was incredibly worried about the war in China, believing they would probably be attacked next by this "Aggressive Imperialist Russia". As a result, India would decide to physically involve itself into the conflict after pressure from the UN Security Council had failed to stop the Russian advance inside China. As a result, with western backing, more than 2.5 Million Indian troops would rush to the Chinese Front. The joint Sino-Indian force would cause the Russian advance to instantly halt on its tracks, with the Battle of Hūazong in Central China being the first city in China where RIA would suffer its first major setback on the Chinese Front, losing the strategic city to the enemy. Even so, the fact still remained, and it was that since the start of the Russo-Chinese Conflict, no Russian city, town or even scrap of land had been affected by this war, let alone touched by a single Chinese bullet.

Although the Chinese Airforce had planned raiding operations against Russian cities and towns as a revenge for the damage dealt by the Russians at home, the RIAF (Russian Imperial AirForce) had gained total Air superiority almost immediately, and any and all Chinese planes flying in the skies, whether armed or not, were to be shot down with malice as decreed by the Tsar. Thankfully though, the Indian Airforce was now in the play, and with newly imported Aircrafts from America, they would begin to challenge the might of the RIAF, going so far as to stage a brief air raid over the Free City of Stalinsk, one of Russia's largest and most prominent cities. Although incredibly small, the raid humiliated the RIAF, who claimed to be "The invincible wall that guards Russian skies". The Russian people were shocked, and panic slowly resurfaced in Stalinsk, although it would be cooled down by the RIAF’s publication of their latest military operation as revenge for the small air raid.

The Sino-Indian victory was to short lived after the CRE began imposing the same policies on Indian Planes as it did with Chinese planes. Additionally, on August 2012, the Russian Imperial Airforce would begin the Vitse-Vodopad, or Operation Vice-Falls when translated. This would be the large aerial bombardment of Indian cities and towns, as well as other important infrastructural area in the country. The air battle over India had begun, but with the vastness of Czar Viktor's massive aerial and naval forces had been unleashed against India, there was little the Indians could do to stop the Russians from gaining total superiority over the skies of India. As a result of the operation, Indian Ports (Harbours, Airports etc.) as well as other essential Industrial infrastructure would be laid to waste. This was a solution to RIA's inability to reach India, as the Russian Navy had yet to get a chance of getting rid of the pesky, but impressive Chinese Navy, who's massive submarine fleet prowled the Pacific in an effort to disrupt Russian shipping. In fact, at first the Chinese wanted to unleash their massive missile inventory on Stalinsk as revenge for the air raids in India, but after the Russians deployed their navy in order to carry out these raids, the Chinese would launch one of the biggest missile attacks on Russian Warships in the Indian ocean, sinking almost the entire fleet of destroyers, cruisers, frigates, corvettes and the two Aircraft Carriers that had been deployed into the area in order to blockade Indian coasts. Although 15% of the fleet that had been deployed to the Indian Ocean had survived, the Russian people were in shock, and this prompted the Russian government to begin pouring massive amounts of money onto the improvement of RINF (Russian Imperial Navy Force) anti-ballistic missile systems as well as it’s offensive capabilities. With billions to the RINF, this would begin the fastest naval build-up in the history of humanity as warship production skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, the fighting between the CRE and the Sino-Indian forces on the Chinese Front would continue all year through, with both sides pushing each other back and forth at this point. It was obviously an unstable stalemate, however, the front would finally stabilize, allowing a more predictable stalemate to develop on March 2013, although at a great price for the Sino-Indian forces, of whom lost a staggering 46 soldiers for every Russian they killed. The loss of equipment on the Chinese Front would cause an increase in the stimulation of Russian war industry, inflaming the already massive Russian military budget. With trade in the pacific being disrupted, and military spending rising to massive heights, the era of economic boom was relatively over. But unlike the USA, who's boom culminated in a depression, in Russia, the boom ended when it became clear to Russian economists that the growth of the economy had slowed down. But it was normal for growth to slow as a country transitioned from developing to developed, especially in Russia's place, the only nation in the world to be regarded as a Hyper-Industrialized (a nation that can produce a massive variety of advanced high quality goods in vast quantities at the same time), a criteria not even the USA could fit into.

Meanwhile, whilst the war in China continued, normal Russians went about their daily lives barely affected by the conflict apart from the economic slowdown, protests for the war in China to end, as well as the small air-raid in Stalinsk. Ironically, the war in the frontlines was brutal. At first, the Sino-Indian forces kept Russian POWs during the fighting, but as the atrocities committed by the Sila Ataki against Chinese civilians became apparent to them, Sino-Indian forces, particularly Chinese troops, would mostly shoot on sight, the few small pockets of Russian troops that surrendered or they captured. Additionally, even though the Sino-Indian forces captured an extremely small number of Russian troops due to how advanced and effective the Russians were as a fighting force, the few captured Russian POWs were mostly treated horribly if not murdered in the war prison camps. This form of retribution would lead to more atrocities against Chinese civilians, augmenting the hate both sides felt. Bad blood would lead to more bad blood. Troops no longer believed in the rules of war, let alone surrender, thus causing the war to become even bloodier. With so much blood being spilt on the Chinese Front, many Russians were unhappy about the war in China and called for its immediate end as the anti-war campaign began re-emerge. As a result, this anti-war campaign would lead to the increased censorship of Russian free press as Tsarist propaganda began to be more and more prominent.

The war's geopolitical effects were also evident. Major disputes over trading routes between the Japanese Government and that of the Chinese had escalated when Japanese Naval patrol boats were accused of having fired shells at Indian Warships, leading to a naval blockade against Japanese shipping routes. This escalation of tensions would cause the Japanese Government to pass laws forcing the withdrawal of any and all Japanese investments in India and China. These bills would force private Japanese corporations to pull out millions from both countries. This move would affect India the most, who's economy needed the capital Japan had provided, especially during these times of war. In response to this, the Indian government would seize all Japanese assets within Indian territory. Japan would lose billions. As revenge, the Japanese would manage to convince a staggering 21 different nations to impose economic penalties similar to its own on India, with others going so far as to impose harsher sanctions. The Japanese would also encourage the CRE to unleash it’s massive navy on both nations so as to alleviate their shipping lanes. At first there were reservations about this from the Russian Imperial High Command, particularly when taking into account what had happened on the Indian oean, but now that Indian and Chinese warships had left the safety of their naval bases as well as harbours in order to blockade Japanese shipping routes, the Russians would oblige, taking the opportunity to attack their enemy’s navy.

Knowing that Japan was a close ally of the CRE, both India and China were convinced that the Japanese government was being influenced by the Russians. They were sure this was direct action to undermine their war effort against the CRE. As a result of the tensions, a massive joint Indo-Chinese Airforce would suddenly attack the Japanese Capital of Tokyo from out of nowhere. This attack would also include other major Japanese cities. Completely eradicating harbours, ports and buildings. During this surprise attack, the Indo-Chinese Airforce had dropped 600 tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs on civilian centres in Tokyo. 12 400 Japanese citizens were killed from just a single air raid, and war was declared by a furious Japanese Prime Minister Ryuga Akiyama after the Diet (Japanese Parliament) approved. The ruthless attack received international condemnation, with the UN threatening to sanction both nations due to their carelessness.

The Airforce of both India and China would begin to be put to use on endlessly bombarding Japanese cities, with Tokyo as the main target of the terrible events what would be dubbed 'The Blitz II' by Western media. By this time, many political scientists began to predict that a new World War was on the horizon. Although no naval invasion of Japan would be planned by both India and China due to their focus being on fighting Russia on the Chinese Front as well as concerns about the dangerous presence of the RINF, the Blitz II would be used as a fighting tool against Japan. Japan on the other hand could offer no reply apart from what they could do from home in terms of defence. They weren't prepared for war and since WWII, the Japanese military hadn't been the same. It would take longer for the Japanese military to be prepared for combat. To make matters worse, they were losing the air war over their nation, they could not request CRE aid as their alliance was purely economic and in an effort to not provoke America, had refused to sign into military conventions with the CRE. On the other hand, America supported India and China in their war against Russia, and thus refused to get involved in the Blitz ii, the Japanese were on their own.

But to Japan's luck, the CRE was eager to share the damages of the war against China and India. The RINF (Russian Imperial Navy Force) had thousands of aircrafts and was thus ready to intervene. But they knew that carrying all the weight of fighting the air forces of both nations wouldn't be "a sharing of the damages". The Russians were in an economic alliance with Japan, this alliance had nothing to do with military relations between the two nations apart from the sale of some arms to Japan by private Russian Weapons Corporations, as well as the maintenance of naval and air force bases in the Kuril Islands. So Russian diplomats would provide Japan with their terms. If they wanted military aid then they had to sign a military pact with Russia and stay away from Western military alliances. This along with other concessions would not only bring the nations even closer together, but ensure Russian interests in Japan were protected. Honouring their agreement, the Cardinal Chamber of the Imperium would reactivate the International Aid Act of 2008 that had been passed under the RCU during its efforts to rebuild the world economy after the Financial Crisis of 2007-8. Now that the commitment of the CRE was secured, Japan could count on Russia to help with the steel, but the Japanese needed to get hundreds of thousands, if not millions of troops, onto mainland Asia in order to help alleviate the pressure from Russian troops. Essential military equipment worth hundreds of millions of Rubles would be moved from the CRE to Japan. The Russians would even sell their Japanese ally guns and bombs at discounted prices so as to quickly prepare the Japanese military. The lease of military equipment to Japan was incredibly quick, showing off the logistical prowess of the Russian military.

Even though Chinese submarines tried to disrupt the transference of this equipment, Russian anti-submarine warfare would prove successful in protecting convoys and smoothening the whole process, particularly after five Chinese subs were heavily damaged by the RINF, with only four making it back to China without sinking. The Russians then began secretly building a new Airforce base inside Japan so as to counter 'The Blitz II'. Soon, the Sino-Indian Airforce was in a massive air war with the RIAF (Russian Imperial Airforce), slowly killing their air superiority over Japan and gradually putting an end to the Blitz ii. At the height of its nationalism as well as with massive military aid from Russia, the Japanese would soon be ready. By September 2013, angry Japanese forces would enter Russian occupied north-eastern China. With hundreds of Millions of Rubles being wasted each day as the War in China continued (and it had been an entire two years), the Russians would instantly withdraw from north-eastern China, thus giving it to the Japanese, and would only occupy north-western China, thus cutting the expensive logistics costs of maintaining their occupation and guerrilla fight in occupied Chinese territory by half. So, although it seemed as if the Russians were burdening the costs alone, they actually weren’t as the expensive logistical expenses which had cost them millions of rubles a day, had been cut by more than half since Japan was now burdening the other half by occupying north-eastern China, who’s guerrilla fighters were relentless.

With this alliance, the USA would react by reactivating the Lend Lease Act of 1941 by sending massive amounts of military aid to both India and China as revenge for the actions of the then RCU during the American Civil War of Morality. Both India and China would fight the Russian Superpower even harder, believing that the world supported them. Still, it proved very costly for both. The millions of lives lost on the Chinese Front were just too much to bare. They had to find an alternative way to end the war with the Superpower. After both India and China agreed on how to finish off the Russians, on January 2014, a massive Sino-Indian force of 257 Nuclear missiles would flood the Russian mainland at the same time, targeting key Russian locations (i.e. major Cities, Industrial grounds, Commercial estates and Ports etc.), not fully comprehending Russia's powerful Nuclear defence protocol. Japan would be spared from the devastation, only because both India and China expected Japan to come to the conference table immediately after the CRE was devastated. This attack was a disastrous decision, and both nations didn't even know.

Due to the NRDTs(Nuclear Radiation Defence Terminals) most of these long to short range Nuclear missiles would be automatically diffused by the ultra-advanced computer systems of the NRDTs. In fact, 167 of these missiles would be diffused before they even hit Russia. 55 would be intercepted by strategic NRDT anti-ballistic missiles, and would be blown up in the sky inside and outside Russian airspace (although some of the radiation released from those that blew up outside Russian airspace would still reach Russia because of the winds), whilst the rest were redirected to the Artic Sea. Although this effectively defended Russia from nigh destruction, it was still the first time the NRDTs were actually being used and there was only so much the they could do, and this was because 5 of the nuclear bombs still exploded inside Russia, although all of these nukes were more or less decoy nukes with little range and radiation as they were part of the oldest nuclear weapons that got created by China during the cold war era. These five nukes were only meant to damage arable land and spread radiation to the nearest population centres, thus meaning no town, city or a populated area had been directly hit. Even so, much of the radiation released from the nukes intercepted inside Russian airspace, including the five that managed to explode inside Russia, had spread to towns and villages, including 5 cities, managing to kill 26 568 Russian citizens within the time span of two weeks before Russian authorities managed to get the situation under control, even then, the radiation was expected to cause major health issues for those population centres it had spread to. This was the first time the war with China and India was coming home to the Russian Empire, and it had done so in a big way. The last time such a thing happened, only a few people got injured in Stalinsk, whilst only 12 died after the small air raid on the city.

As for Japan, its people had dodged a bullet, what shocked them more than Russia's anti-nuclear and anti-ballistic missile system, was that they themselves hadn't been nuked. They got lucky, and they had gotten the message. Many Japanese citizens believed that they would be nuked by China and its ally should they continue to fight in the Russo-Chinese Conflict, and something even worse than what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki all those years, would happen. They had two choices, retreat and live to fight another day, or risk the repeat of WWII. Prime Minister Ryuga Akiyama would reluctantly withdraw Japanese forces from north-eastern China. Yes, they could produce nukes if they wanted to, but they knew that nuclear arms build-up was extremely expensive, plus they felt it was pointless as their missile systems and technology was nothing compared to Russia or China, meaning they would have to develop the best mechanisms for delivering warheads if they didn't want to be humiliated like China and India. But what made a nuclear arms build-up even more pointless to them was that unlike Russia, they themselves could get nuked, and if wind of such a build-up ever reached the ears of the Chinese or Indian leadership, then they'd be finished. Plus, after the failed nuclear attack, Russia was surely going to retaliate. As a result, for them the war with China and India was over.

The Japanese informed the Russians of their decision instantly after the failed nuclear attack, quickly withdrawing troops from mainland China. Many Japanese military leaders were unhappy about the decision, feeling that it tainted Japan's honour to abandon a friend during tough times, especially after agreements had been made, but the Japanese Parliament – The National Diet of Japan, had given out the order, and with the Prime Minister's support, there was nothing they could do. As a result, many Russian soldiers who had taken a recess and had been sent back home to enjoy themselves away from the frontlines needed to be quickly recalled. Although Russian logistics was good, this quick and relatively unplanned redeployment of soldiers who had been enjoying themselves back at home two or three days earlier, caused major disorder. The troops that had to refill the void left by Japan were not enough to realistically maintain the full occupation of north-eastern China (formerly occupied by the Japanese) whilst battling Chinese guerrilla fighters, even with Sila Ataki troops being put on the frontline. As a result, it was very unlikely that the Russian military would be able push back a counter-offensive by the enemy.

As predicted, this allowed the Sino-Indian forces to quickly retake much of north-eastern China. Even so, for the CRE, the good news was that they had managed to stop the advance of the enemy much earlier than expected, allowing the Russian military to keep the far northern parts of north-eastern China, keeping the provinces of Heilongjiang and some northern parts of the province of Jilin as well as the far north of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. The Russians were lucky, they had narrowly kept their enemies away from the Russian border. Even though this advance by the Sino-Indian forces merely expanded the threat of air raids over Eastern Siberian cities, the trusted air superiority of the RIAF would protect against such. For the first time since the start of the Russo-Chinese war, Chinese forces finally regained a clear majority of their land. The bad news for the Russians was that many Chinese civilians had now escaped their control even though brutal Sila Ataki methods had brought a lot of them along with the rapidly retreating Russian army, a huge majority of those previously controlled by the SA were now in the hands of their original government, meaning they were not only safe, but they could join the Chinese war effort and also be able to corroborate rumours of Russian atrocities in occupied China. This would be worsened by the horrifying truth that advancing Sino-Indian forces would unravel about Russian war-crimes against the Chinese people. Even though the Japanese did their best to destroy most of the evidence, their retreat from mainland Asia was too fast to allow them liberty and time to do so effectively. Russian attempts to cover up the war crimes during a rapid retreat northwards, amid the realization that the numerical superiority of the enemy meant they couldn't hold their positions, were even worse. These news would cause the USA to send CIA Officials, whilst the UN set up an investigative taskforce on to the Chinese Front, in an effort to get even more tangible evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. The Russians refused to admit to genocide against the Chinese people, but for the West, the writing was on the wall, the CRE was guilty. Meanwhile, Russia’s newly formed military alliance with Japan was also in a shaky situation.

The Russian people were angry at Japan, leading to the shunning of Japan by Russia and their ally – Italy. As a result of what many Russians considered 'betrayal' by the Japanese, the Russians would withdraw all their troops and equipment from the Japanese homeland, instantly dismantling military installations, deserting the large air base they had set up in Tokyo and immediately stopping the construction of the other five that were being made in other Japanese cities. Then overnight, the Russian military was gone and the air battle over Japan was over. Now Indian and Chinese bombers as well as multirole aircrafts could finally pursue their mission of bombarding the nation into submission. The Blitz ii was re-strengthening in their favour again, and this had happened after the Japanese refused to Surrender Unconditionally to India and China during the Treaty of Mumbai, thus meaning the air war between them would continue, even though Japan had withdrawn from China. Meanwhile, relations with Russia had been hurt, although they would continue to trade with one another, Russia had begun imposing economic barriers against the Japanese companies, which not only injured the Japanese economy, but the profitability of their trade bloc. Western media would add fuel to the fire in an effort to bring an end to the Russo-Japanese Trade Bloc, which many economies around the world, relied on.

Meanwhile, as a result of the nuclear attack on Russia, the Tsar was furious. He declared that this attack was the greatest injustice against the Russian people since the Nazi invasion of Soviet-Russia in WW2. Had their defences been weak, then millions of his people would've died. Never before had Tsarist propaganda been more effective, now Russian people despised the nation of China, and wanted revenge. The Tsar would promise great vengeance for the lives lost in the sudden nuclear attack against the Motherland. As the entire Russian Empire mourned the death of the innocent people who had died, the Government would use this moment to stimulate great patriotism inside the CRE against China and India. The actions of both countries not only strengthened Tsarist indoctrination, but Sila Ataki propaganda against Chinese people as well. But what was even worse for both countries was that they had wasted a huge majority of their arsenal on Russia, and the little that was left wasn't even capable let alone deployed. For India and China, the situation was bad.

As revenge for the nuclear attacks, the killings by a bolstered Sila Ataki in the occupied north-western territory of China would intensify. By June 2014, over 47.8 Million Chinese Citizens were reported to having either been starved to death, exposed to the elements with intention to cause grievous bodily harm, shot by Sila Ataki troops or gassed on their large death camps since the start of the war. The Sila Ataki was a ruthless and efficient killing machine and if things continued in this pace then the Russian government would easily find new and better ways of "ending the misery of the Chinese scourge faster", as commented by a Russian Imperial official in the Winter Palace. Very few were aware of the magnitude of these crimes on the front lines, and even those that were, weren't really sure of the staggering figures. Considering that the SA only really started operating 2 years ago, killing on such a massive scale meant that this was the biggest genocidal program ever launched in human history. However, these crimes were all too apparent to the United States of America, and when the CIA secretly moving in occupied China finally obtained large amounts of evidence concerning massive state sponsored genocide by Russia against the Chinese people, published articles worldwide. For the death of Czar Maxim i Orlov, the people of China had paid a huge price. Now the world had obtained even more proof of what was happening inside occupied China. Russia was instantly condemned by the international community and the USA would bring the matter up to the UN Security Council, calling for the Tsar and his generals to be summoned upon an international tribunal and tried for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.

However, the day before such a trial could be organized, the Confederated Russian Empire (CRE) would self-terminate its UN membership under the guise and pretext of an unfair and biased United Nations on July,21, 2014. The Russians and all of its allies (excluding their African allies, of whom decided to side with the West) would then go on to form the UEA (Upper Eurasian Alliance) after member-states from Europe and Asia i.e. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Iran, Italy, Russian Satellite States etc.) signed up into the Alliance in Rome, Italy, under the leadership of the three strongest nations in the alliance i.e. Japan (who chose to side with the CRE during a UN General Assembly meeting and were thus expelled from the UN), Italy and the strongest of them all combined - the CRE. The UEA Security Council would be headed by these three nations, with only the CRE being granted the veto power. Relations between Japan and Russia were rapidly improving again after what had happened before the UN General Assembly. Although at first it would be proposed that the UEA be based in Rome, it would be decided by it’s member-states that the HQ must be set up in the Russian Legislative Capital of Moscow, CRE. This was the only organization world-wide to be the rival of the UN, and many experts believed that this was solely because of the CRE's membership. Even so, it would be because of its creation that all of its member-states would have their membership in the UN terminated by the USA and its allies. This proved that with Russia gone, America now dominated the UN.

The UN would also set its new "Main Battle Force" – NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). After UN member-states would agree to this at the San Fransisco Summit on August the 17th, 2014. Now NATO would fight for all UN member-states instead of just fighting exclusively for America and Western Europe. Because of this integration, a budget surpassing 1.5 trillion dollars would be set up for this new and more powerful NATO. This would cause the Russians to believe that America was being hostile towards the CRE, and was thus preparing to attack. So as a response, Russia would reform its own Military alliance, inviting a huge majority of UEA member-states to meet with CRE President Dimitrovo Putin in Warsaw, RSS Poland. After deliberations between those present at the meeting, the United Configuration of the Warsaw Pact (UCWP) would be formed. Like NATO and the UN, the UCWP military alliance would more or less become the main fighting force of the UEA. Now many believed that war between the two sides was inevitable, thus because of this, the doctrine of UCWP was simple, and that was to destroy NATO by destabilising its' global intelligence network and programs. Russian officials believed that this would dismantle its' international surveillance capabilities, thus helping to narrow the amount of power it can project around the world. But to simplify it, UCWP was a direct hostile organization against America's equally hostile NATO.

Meanwhile, it was September 2014 and the killings of Chinese populations in north-western China had gotten worse. Especially with the Sila Ataki receiving newly recruited fresh troops from Russian Satellite States as well as UCWP troops. It was terrible. The RIA had gotten back its' footing and hit Sino-Indian troops with a huge counter-offensive, and they had soon retrieved the Chinese City of Changchun and this time a more hostile force would be placed to occupy the city, whilst the RIA continued its advance. The population of the city would resist fiercely against the Sila Ataki, of whom wanted to brutalize the shrunken population (due to massive evacuations southwards by the Chinese Government) into submission. For the Chinese government, the disgrace was not being able to evacuate those civilians before the Russians overran the city. The resistance of the people in the city would lead to the single most greatest atrocity in human history - The Changchun Massacre, which saw the killings of Chinese people continue for three days straight without relent or mercy.

The Changchun Massacre had caused the deaths of a massive 96 000 people in a matter of three days, no greater crime had ever occurred in human history. It by far surpassed the Odessa Massacre of WW2. The Russians persisted that this wasn't a crime as those that died were using weapons and force against Sila Ataki troops, but this was simply not true as many of those killed were unarmed if not peacefully going about their day, whilst those that used weapons used Molotov cocktails. There were very few individuals whom used weapons like pistols and rifles. However, disputes with the UN changed nothing, tens of thousands of people had died. Meanwhile, the Russian military was putting more pressure on Sino-Indian forces, and it was believed that at this rate, the Chinese Military was going to collapse, plus with the greater economy on Russia's hands, this meant that the longer this war went on, the clearer it became that it was going in Russia's favour.

But by this time the whole world was finally willing to act against what the new President of the USA - Barack Obama, referred to as "Hell on Earth and the greatest test to the will of humanity to fight for freedom and what is Just". The Changchun Massacre was the last straw for the USA, plus America was aware that if Russia conquered China, then India was certainly next, and this meant that control of Asia and half of Europe would fall to Russia. American interests were under threat and the US Congress was putting more pressure on the new President to act. Obama would oblige, he would start by declaring to Russia that China was a member-state of the UN, this in effect made the nation a part of the NATO defence umbrella. By October, President Obama had begun passing demands to Moscow and St. Petersburg, calling for Russia to withdraw its troops from China, and when the CRE ignored the demands, the US Congress would jump at the opportunity by declaring a state of war between the CRE and the USA. Soon afterwards, NATO and the UN would declare the Confederated Russian Empire and then later the UEA, a "Clear and hostile threat to humanity".

Now the forces of the UN (i.e. NATO) would be led by the USA to fight against the forces of the UEA (i.e. UCWP) led by the CRE. These two world Superpowers were now set to clash on the world stage, and it was clearly for world domination. To this end, on the 2nd of December 2014, the Democrat President of the USA - Barack Obama, would declare the beginning of the "Darkest Age in human history". The age of Cataclysm was under way - WW3 had begun.

To be continued...

IMPORTANT TRIVIA

RSS- This stands for 'Russian Satellite State', and is thus typically found at the beginning of the name of a satellite state (e.g. RSS Poland; RSS Turkey etc.). These are dominions that have autonomy, but are under the jurisdiction of the CRE (Unincorporated Territories)